Herman van de Werfhorst is professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and director of the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS, www.amcis.uva.nl) which is sponsored by a Research Priority Area "Institutions and Inequality" of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences of UvA.

Van de Werfhorst is member of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS).

He obtained his PhD at the ICS / University of Nijmegen in 2001. From 2000-2002 he was a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Since 2002 he has been teaching Sociology at the department of Sociology of the University of Amsterdam, since 2007 as full professor.

Herman has been involved in the acquisition of various large research grants, including a EU FP6 Network of Excellence EQUALSOC (2005-2010), an FP7 Collaborative research project GINI (2010-2013), a personal NWO-Vidi grant (2007-2012), an NWO-PROO collaborative research programme (2011-2015), and a personal NWO-Vici grant (2015-2020).

Herman's research interests include the sociology of education, social stratification and mobility, labour market sociology, and quantitiative methodology &statistics.

van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2017). Gender, socio-economic background and the choice of fields of study in the Netherlands. In R. Arviv-Elyashiv, Y. Feniger, & Y. Shavit (Eds.), A Chance for a Change? Theory and Research on Equality of Educational Opportunity (pp. 229– 256). Tel Aviv: Mofet.

van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2017). The art of asking questions, and why scientists are better at it. In B. de Graaf, A. Rinnooy Kan, & H. Molenaar (Eds.), The Dutch National Research Agenda in Perspective. A Reflection on Research and Science Policy in Practice (pp. 137-145). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Haas, C., & Van De Werfhorst, H. (2017). Ahead of the pack? Explaining the unequal distribution of scholarships in Germany. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 27(5), 705-720. DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2016.1158637[details]

Witschge, J., & van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2016). Standardization of lower secondary civic education and inequality of the civic and political engagement of students. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 27(3), 367-384. DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2015.1068817[details]

van de Werfhorst, H. G., & Salverda, W. (2012). Consequences of economic inequality: introduction to a special issue. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 30(4), 377-387. DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2012.08.001[details]

2011

Bol, T., & van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2011). Signals and closure by degrees: the education effect across 15 European countries. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 29(1), 119-132. DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2010.12.002[details]

van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2011). Skill and education effects on earnings in 18 countries: the role of national educational institutions. Social Science Research, 40(4), 1078-1090. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.03.004[details]

van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2011). Skills, positional good or social closure? The role of education across structural-institutional labour market settings. Journal of Education and Work, 24(5), 521-548. DOI: 10.1080/13639080.2011.586994[details]

2009

van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2009). Credential inflation and educational strategies: a comparison of the United States and the Netherlands. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 27(4), 269-284. DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2009.10.001[details]

2008

van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2008). Educational fields of study and European labor markets: Introduction to a special issue. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 49(4-5), 227-231. DOI: 10.1177/0020715208093075[details]

2008

2011

Di Stasio, V., & van de Werfhorst, H. (2011). Educational credentials as hiring screens: results from a vignette study in the Italian IT sector. Paper presented at Summer meeting of the ISA RC28: 'Opportunity, meritocracy, and changing patterns of social inequality', .

Di Stasio, V., & van de Werfhorst, H. (2011). The role of educational credentials when hiring in different institutional contexts: a vignette study in Italy and the Netherlands. Paper presented at ECSR 20th Anniversary Conference:European Society or Societies? A 20-Year Perspective, .

Award

van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2014). Between Institutions and Social Mechanisms: Education and Inequality in Comparative Perspective (NWO-Vici Grant).

Scientific position

van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2012). Member of the editorial board, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

van de Werfhorst, H. G. (participant) (2-7-2015 - 4-7-2015). London School of Economics and Political Science, London. co-organizer mini-symposium Inequality: Drivers, Impacts and Policies at Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).

van de Werfhorst, H. G. (participant) (5-3-2015 - 7-3-2015). European coordinator and organizer of American-European conference "Reducing Inequality: What American Scholarship Can Learn from the European Experiences" (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).

van de Werfhorst, H. G. (participant) (16-1-2014). Conference to celebrate the continuation of Institutions and Inequality as an FMG Faculty Zwaartepunt, with a mini‐symposium organized around research conducted at AMCIS presented by AMCIS postdocs from Sociology, Educational Science and Political Science, Amsterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).

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